Navigate Agency
Senior Paid Media Manager
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For over twenty years, Navigate has been shaping success stories for tourism, heritage, nature, and culture organisations worldwide.
We define positive-impact as a conscious effort to create meaningful and lasting benefits for places, people, and planet. We're proud to work with some of the world's leading positive-impact brands. Our work involves crafting strategies that not only drive growth but also contribute to the well-being of the environment, local heritage, culture, and people.
Through our two-decade journey in the industry, we've championed this ethos, integrating it seamlessly into our services. Positive impact means navigating the path of growth with purpose and ensuring sustainable growth that generates profits while positively impacting the communities in which they operate.
About the Role
We’re looking for a strategic thinker and performance-driven leader; a Senior Paid Media Manager, who will oversee the direction and execution of paid media campaigns, ensuring the drive growth and client retention.
Responsibilities
- Develop and refine paid media strategies that align with client and business goals.
- Stay ahead of trends, innovating and adapting strategies accordingly.
- Lead the planning and execution of complex campaigns, ensuring success for key accounts and major projects.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships, acting as the strategic point of contact.
- Lead client meetings, presenting performance insights and growth opportunities.
- Mentor junior account managers, fostering professional growth and ensuring support structures are in place.
- Monitor and optimise campaign budgets, making strategic adjustments for peak performance.
- Provide advanced data analysis, delivering clear, actionable insights and recommendations.
- Conduct account audits for existing and prospective clients.
- Support onboarding new team members and ensure smooth integration.
- Hold weekly 1:1s with direct reports, addressing challenges and tracking progress.
- Conduct quarterly and annual reviews, working with HR on PDPs and goal-setting.
- Stay updated on industry trends and technologies, evaluating new tools for improved performance.
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What does great look like?
- At least four years of hands-on experience crafting and delivering successful campaigns across Paid Search and Paid Social channels.
- Strong working knowledge of biddable media and key partner platforms (Google Merchant Centre, Microsoft Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn, TikTok, and more).
- Detailed understanding and experience of relevant supporting technologies, including the Google Advertising Suite (GA4, Looker Studio, Tag Manager, Google Ads).
- Strong analytical skills for thoroughly reviewing campaign performance with the ability to effectively communicate results and recommendations.
- An on-time, on-budget, and on-target advertising campaign track record.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- A proven ability to stay up to date with the latest developments and identify new opportunities and innovations to develop our offering.
- A passion for great work that you are proud of, but not for any old brands, for brands that actually make a difference.
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Equal Opportunity Statement
Navigate is an equal opportunities employer and committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment. We welcome applications from anyone suitably qualified for each role and when it comes to recruiting, hiring, developing, and promoting employees, we treat everyone equally regardless of their age, sex, sexual orientation, race, nationality, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, and place an obligation upon all of our employees to respect and act in accordance with this policy.
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